The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-01
COMMENT AND OPINION.

1NELTGIBILITY for a second term may yet be
| the best boon that the Nation can confer upon
its Presidents oston Advertiser
THE President is graciously pleased to accept
any Western invitation, provided the Union vet.
eran is left out-New York Tribune.
INDIANA has a splendid man for President in
the person OF Ben Harrison. Ohio would support
him heerfully.-Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zerte.
IF the national Democratic platform next year
is to be built on the Carlisle w atterson plan the
protection Democratic papers of the South
will have to take a big dose of crow or kick over
the platter.-Detroit Tribune.
THE administration organs which are at pres
ent favoring the country with long articles on
Cleve4and's growing popularity, somehow
fail to mention the recent gathering of the Dem
ocratic editors of Indiana.-Pittsburs Chronicle
A CASUAL survey of the political outlook war
rants the statement that the Democrats I'M
able to perceive suy need of Labor party, and
that the Republicans no justification for
a Prohibition party.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
THE increase in large fires of apparently in
cendiary origin is so notable in other cities than
New York to demand active preventive and
punitive measures, and it were better done by
the law of the land than by the law of the lamp
post.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
THE earnest hope of the Republican party is
that there may be harmony enough preserved to
result in the nomination of Cleveland in 1888;
after that we will take care of the Nation for
four years. and how much longer no one can
say.-San francisco Chronicle.
THE Republicans need not and will not make
their campaign one of personal hostility to Mr..
Cleveland. but will rest tn cir claim to popular
support OF their attitude on all national ques-
tions. In such d campaign they have every
prospect of Observation-Disclosures Press.
THE effort to read Sam Randall out of the
Democratic party has not SO far met with very
great success. But what would the Democrats
do il Mr. Randall should take q notion to read
himself out of the party and, with his large fol-
lowing, join the Republicans Have they even
thought OF that?-Denver Republican.
init hat i.C1 a
Democrats in New York will not die Of apo
plexy through their overexertions in carrying
the State for the Democracy this year. They
are aware that a Democratic defeat at the fail
election would be a serious setback to Mr. Cleve-
lands aspirations for renomiuation.-Bost
Journal.
GREAT parties do not rest upon names, but on
principles. Napoleon could not build a living
dynasty on a name. If the Republican party,
as seems possible, proposes TO cherish Mr.. Blaine
dynastic candidate-to run him as long as
of the Wing party-a useless career and
despised end.-New York Herald
ONLY few years ago. under Seth Low. the
municipal government of Brooklyn model
and a marvel. Now. under Democratic admins
tration things have reached so bad pass that
the Eagle. the leading Democratic organ,
declares the necessity of reform, even at the
cost of Democratic supremacy in the State and
Nation 1t doesn't take long for city to go
down hill when the Democrats have full control
Boston Journal
Mr.. BLAINE did not can he unite his par
ty and take it to the polls man TO vote
for him as President. 1t may not really be his
fault that his candidacy would have to be de-
Tended at every stage of its progress; it may be
only his misfortune; but, fault misfortune,
the fact is precisely Mr. Frank Hatton states
it: There never was anything proved more
plainly than that Mr.. Blaine did not have the
entire party with him in 1884, unless 1t be the
other complementary fact that he cannot have
the entire body of his party with him in 1888
philadelphia Telegraph (Rep-)